3/1/2024 0 Comments Sym motorsThe CVT, of course, means you’re shiftless. One nice thing is, unlike most Japanese scooters which have ways to keep Americans from hurting themselves, you can let the Fiddle warm up on the sidestand – though it comes with an easy-to-use centerstand too. Your ceramic-coated cylinder is via a “special compound-electroplating process to disperse Ni (nickel) particles and SiC (silicon carbide) particles on the cylinder wall together, which forms a particular cylinder with the compound-electroplating layer (Ni/SiC), and brings the quality to excellence.” I know the computer in my car has to relearn things whenever the battery is disconnected maybe that ECU learning sophistication extends to scooters now? But, as it turns out, after a couple weeks of riding around and getting 60 break-in miles on the little dear, she starts easier and runs better/smoother: the smell of fuel during warm-up is way less noticeable. We’re told there’s a simple idle adjustment screw on the side of the throttle body to make starting from cold easier, but I’d need to remove the “seat bucket” to get to it, which appears pretty easy. Unlike the careful prep a loaner Japanese scoot gets, the SYM only got released from its crate and ridden around a parking lot before being released into our clutches. It doesn’t look like it would be hard to ditch them and attach the wires where the designer intended in the faired-in front: The bulbs are already there. The only stylistic faux pas would be the sore-thumb front blinkers and their bracket, necessitated by US regs requiring them to be a certain height from the ground. The big round headlight and retro instrument pod carry on the classic theme, the taillight is a big LED unit, and the LED running lights are supposed to increase your visibility. Instead of being stamped from steel like the Italian brand, the SYM’s steel skeleton is covered in “European-styled” plastic, all of which fits nice and snug, and the Phantom Grey plastic on our unit is high class. Vespa rates that 155cc thumper at 12.5 horsepower and 9.1 pound-feet SYM says its motor makes 11.8 hp and 9.2 lb-ft. Actually, the Vespa GTS300 is, but the SYM’s 169cc engine puts it in the Vespa Primavera camp. It looks like we’re going for that Vespa look, and why not, since the Vespa is pretty much the Ferrari of scooters.
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